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SERIES
Love IslandThe winning
couple will be revealed
and then claim the
$100,000 grand prize in the
reality series’ season fina-
le. Arielle Vandenberg
hosts. 8 p.m. CBS
Bulletproof Two under-
cover cops (Noel Clarke,
Ashley Walters) chase
down bad guys in Lon-
don’s gritty East End in
this imported action
drama. 8 p.m. The CW
MasterChefThe remaining
contestants must feed
race car crew members at
Irwindale Speedway on a
new episode of the culi-
nary competition. 8 p.m.
Fox
Ancient SkiesThis three-
part series tracing the
evolution of humanity’s
understanding of our
place in the universe con-
cludes. 8 p.m. KOCE
Grown-ishThis college-set
spinoff of the ABC sitcom
“black-ish” ends its sopho-
more season. With Yara
Shahidi. 8 p.m. Freeform
Hypnotize MeContestants
take part in wacky chal-
lenges while under hypno-
sis in this new unscripted
series featuring hypnotist
Keith Barry and hosted by
Taye Diggs. 9 p.m. The CW
BH90210Original cast mem-
bers from “Beverly Hills,
90210” play somewhat fic-
tionalized versions of
themselves in this faux re-
ality series. With Jennie
Garth, Tori Spelling, Ja-
son Priestley, Shannen
Doherty, Ian Ziering, Ga-
brielle Carteris and Brian
Austin Green. 9 p.m. Fox
NovaSaturn is the next stop
as the five-part survey
“The Planets” continues.
9 p.m. KOCE
Expedition UnknownHost
Josh Gates visits the Mid-
dle East to investigate re-
cent findings about the
Dead Sea Scrolls in the
season premiere. 9 p.m.
Discovery Channel
ContactA team of investiga-
tors uses the latest tech-
nology to probe accounts
of extraterrestrial visita-
tions in this new un-
scripted series. 10 p.m.
Discovery Channel
Florida GirlsThis irrever-
ent sitcom closes out its
first season with back-to-
back new episodes. 10 and
10:30 p.m. Pop
MOVIESAnatomy of a Murder A
daylong salute to James
Stewart includes the ac-
tor opposite Ben Gazzara
and Lee Remick in direc-
tor Otto Preminger’s grip-
ping 1959 courtroom
drama. 7 p.m. Turner
Classic Movies
The Changeover (2017) 10
a.m. TMC
The Shape of Water(2017)
10:05 a.m. Cinemax
High Crimes(2002) 10:05
a.m. HBO
F/X(1986) 10:20 a.m. Epix
Cinderella Man(2005) 10:36
a.m. Starz
Liar Liar (1997) 11 a.m.
Freeform
The Man From Laramie
(1955) 11 a.m. TCM
House of D(2004) 12:10 p.m.
Cinemax
Fast Times at Ridgemont
High(1982) 1 p.m. AMC
The Mortal Storm(1940) 1
p.m. TCM
Waterworld(1995) 1:02 p.m.
Starz
Everest(2015) 2 p.m. FX
The Call(2013) 2 p.m. Syfy
Ever After: A Cinderella
Story (1998) 2:05 p.m.
HBO
Ghostbusters(1984) 3 p.m.
AMC
The Shop Around the Cor-
ner(1940) 3 p.m. TCM
Immortals(2011) 4 p.m. TNT
Harvey(1950) 5 p.m. TCM
Back to the Future(1985)
5:04 p.m. Encore
City Slickers(1991) 6 p.m.
ShowtimeTALK SHOWSCBS This Morning Greg
Kinnear. (N) 7 a.m. KCBSTodayTiffany Haddish and
Damon Stalworth. (N) 7
a.m. KNBC
KTLA Morning News(N) 7
a.m. KTLA
Good Morning America
Shia LaBeouf; Zack
Gottsagen; Marty Smith.
(N) 7 a.m. KABC
Good Day L.A.Pitcher Clay-
ton Kershaw, the Dod-
gers; dermatologist Sonia
Batra; Gabrielle Carteris
(“BH90210”). (N) 7 a.m.
KTTV
Live With Kelly and Ryan
Milo Ventimiglia (“The
Art of Racing in the
Rain”); Geena Davis
(“This Changes Every-
thing”). (N) 9 a.m. KABC
Strahan & Sara Singer
Meghan Trainor; “Bache-
lor in Paradise” recap. (N)
noon KABC
Amanpour and Company
(N) 11 p.m. KOCE; mid-
night KVCR
The Daily Show With Trev-
or Noah Sen. Michael
Bennet (D-Colo.) and
Natasha Lyonne. (N) 11
p.m. Comedy Central
ConanTig Notaro; Becky
Lucas. 11 p.m. TBS,
The Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy FallonGreg Kinn-
ear; Phoebe Waller-Bridge
(“Fleabag”); Big Sean
performs. (N) 11:34 p.m.
KNBC
The Late Show With
Stephen ColbertTiffany
Haddish; Jared Harris;
the Smashing Pumpkins.
(N) 11:35 p.m. KCBS
Jimmy Kimmel LiveJosh
Gad; Michael “The Miz”
Mizanin; Chris Janson.
(N) 11:35 p.m. KABC
The Late Late Show With
James CordenJoel Mc-
Hale; Betty Gilpin. (N)
12:37 a.m. KCBS
Late Night: Seth Meyers
Amanda Seyfried; Sandra
Bernhard; Storm Reid;
Julian Dorio performs.
(N) 12:37 a.m. KNBC
Nightline (N) 12:37 a.m.
KABCSPORTSLittle League BaseballCov-
erage of regional finals in
Texas and Georgia. 10 a.m.
and noon ESPN
Baseball The Milwaukee
Brewers play the Pitts-
burgh Pirates. 4 p.m.
ESPN
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ring. (N)ÅHypnotize Me(TVPG) (Pre-
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TMC Becks(2017) Lena Hall.Å What Keeps You Alive(2018) Brittany Allen. (R) (9:35)ÅZoos don’t have the best
reputation. They have been
described as “prisons for an-
imals,” castigated for the
wildlife’s depressed appear-
ance and rightly condemned
for cases of animal mistreat-
ment and death. Those con-
cerns have given rise to a
strong anti-captivity move-
ment: At the Los Angeles
Zoo, activists held rallies in
April and May to free Billy
the elephant, nearly 18
months after City Council
members Paul Koretz and
Mitch O’Farrell offered the
latest motion to remove the
Asian elephant from the zoo.
“There is definitely some
sentiment in people’s minds,
I think, that animals in cap-
tivity, in a zoo environment,
is a bad thing,” said Rick
Schwartz, wildlife specialist
and ambassador for the San
Diego Zoo. “There is not a
soul that works for the San
Diego Zoo or the San Diego
Zoo Safari Park that wants
to see an animal in bad con-
dition.” He suggests anyone
who believes that animals
shouldn’t be in zoos or that
zoos shouldn’t exist to come
see for themselves.
Thanks to Animal Plan-
et’s new 10-part series “The
Zoo: San Diego,” which pre-
mieres Saturday, they can —
from the comfort of their liv-
ing rooms. “The Zoo: San Di-
ego” is the latest in the cable
network’s spate of docu-
series to spotlight world-
class zoos and aquariums,
including “The Zoo,” chroni-
cling the Bronx Zoo; “The
Aquarium,” set at the Geor-
gia Aquarium; “Secret Life
of the Zoo,” highlighting
England’s Chester Zoo; and
“Crikey! It’s the Irwins,”
revolving around Terri,
Bindi and Robert Irwin and
their Australia Zoo.
The latest explores the
102-year-old San Diego Zoo
and the San Diego Zoo Sa-
fari Park in nearby Escon-
dido, which are home to
more than 700 species and
6,500 animals, as well as the
San Diego Zoo Institute for
Conservation and Research
and San Diego Zoo Global.
As with its predecessors,
“The Zoo: San Diego” also
profiles the animal keepers
who form a strong bond
with their charges, taking
care of their nutrition,
health and enrichment;
the veterinarians who keep
them healthy; and the scien-
tists who work on their pres-
ervation and protection.
Many of the world’s top
zoos — including San Di-
ego’s, which attracts upward
of 5 million visitors annually
—long ago shed the bars,
opening animal parks where
wildlife roam more or less
freely. And as more species
have become endangered or
threatened due to poaching,trophy hunters, disease and
loss of habitat, zoos have
stepped up conservation
efforts. (Edward, a male
southern white rhino calf,
was born earlier this month
at San Diego Zoo Global af-
ter artificial insemination. It
is the first such birth of a
southern white rhino in
North America.)
“We have this history as
an organization of having
unique ways for our guests
to experience animals,”
Schwartz said, including
“the first opportunity to see
animals that weren’t in the
traditional cement and con-
crete and metal bars, but in-
stead in a large open exhibit
that has a moat separating
people. At that time, in the
’20s and ’30s, it was never
seen in America before.”
The Safari Park, which
opened in 1972, was bornfrom the belief of former
director Dr. Charles Schroe-
der that zoos couldn’t keep
trapping animals in the
wild and putting them in
captivity, Schwartz said.
“[Schroeder] was having
these thoughts in the ’50s
and ’60s, and no one else
was thinking that at the
time,” he said.
Now, the process works in
reverse: The San Diego Zoo
returns California condors
to the wild, the outgrowth
of a conservation initiative
among the government and
a consortium of zoos to save
the species from extinction.
In 1987, the Department of
the Interior captured for
breeding the last of the 27
wild California condors then
left in the world.
“The Zoo: San Diego” fol-
lows senior keeper Rob
Webb and his work to savethe condor.
“I think we are about 30
condors right now, counting
our chicks from this year,” he
noted. “There are now over
500 in the world, with half
flying free.”
These condors are freed
at five wilderness sites in
California and Mexico. San
Diego Zoo Global has con-
servation efforts in 45 coun-
tries, 380 partners in its
conservation work, five field
stations and 200 scientists
working in the field or the
lab.In other words, zoos and
those employed there are
committed to combating the
impression that they are
places of suffering for the an-
imals inhabiting them — a
commitment the new series
underscores.
Zookeepers like Lindsay
King, who works with the 25
koalas at the San Diego Zoo,
“are passionate people who
want to do the best by these
animals,” she said.
“What we can do through
these shows is show that we
are providing the best life.
We take our job very seri-
ously. So it’s important to
us that our animals are do-
ing well and that we can
contribute to saving species
in the wild.”
The San Diego Zoo is
one of 11 in the U.S. with
the beloved Australian
marsupials, about which
less is known than one might
expect.
“They are considered vul-
nerable in Australia,” King
said. “But there’s a lot of
question about how many
there actually are in the
population. There certainly
have been localized extinc-
tions based on habitat loss
and fragmentation and dis-
ease. They’re definitely a
species that needs to be
further studied. I think this
show will help.”
The potential reach of
modern zoos — and their
messages about conserva-
tion — is massive: According
to the Assn. of Zoos &
Aquariums, a nonprofit
advocacy and accreditation
organization, its 236 mem-
ber institutions attract more
than 200 million visitors
each year worldwide.
“That’s more than the NFL,
NBA, NHL and Major
League Baseball attend-
ance,” Schwartz said.
“It goes back to the dy-
namics of our culture,
[which have] shifted over
the last few decades to gain
abetter understanding of
how our existence impacts
animals and wildlife. In the
old days, zoos were a place
where you come and gawk
at, laugh at and point at
animals. Now, it’s a place
where people come and
learn.”Making argument for San Diego Zoo
Animal Planet series
looks at conservation,
not captivity. But will
it change any minds?
By Susan King
IT’S FEEDING TIMEfor a giraffe at the San Diego Zoo, the focus of a new docuseries on Animal Planet.Ken Bohn‘The Zoo:
San Diego’
Where:Animal Planet
When:8 p.m. Saturday